In Australia, as in every other state that restricts firearm ownership, his gun is still just a lump of plastic. You can't print ammunition or buy it without a license. His whole thesis is bunk, and he's a stinky dribble-whiskered flap turkey. He can hold my codpiece.*

*I'm experimenting with free-form obscenity right now. Nothing to see here. Move along.

Really interesting one this, and probably the tipping point for other countries to follow the UK down the mandatory 'chip and PIN' route on bank cards. Just in time for that tech to become too simple to break.

The level of the most important heat-trapping gas in the atmosphere, carbon dioxide, has passed a long-feared milestone, scientists reported on Friday, reaching a concentration not seen on the earth for millions of years.

The best available evidence suggests the amount of the gas in the air has not been this high for at least three million years, before humans evolved, and scientists believe the rise portends large changes in the climate and the level of the sea.

“It symbolizes that so far we have failed miserably in tackling this problem,” said Pieter P. Tans, who runs the monitoring program at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that reported the new reading.